Teen RV launched a series of simultaneous attacks on the five targeted bloggers. She accused them of being blind to the reality that Singaporeans had been displaced by the excessive influx of migrant workers over the past decade. Living spaces had shrunk, jobs had been stolen, but salaries had remained depressed. The Little India riot was the siren that should have woken up every Singaporean to the new and ugly reality. It was now unsafe to walk the streets of their own country. Witness the silence of the young Singaporean woman who was attacked by a migrant worker during the riot. Everyone who caught her interview clip had seen the bruise marks on her wrist. Yet she was too afraid to speak up. She had to lie through her teeth to hide the fact that she had been assaulted in that ambulance. This was the reality facing Singaporeans now. Perhaps the MP of Jalan Besar constituency was right. It was time to fence up certain spaces where the migrant workers could drink themselves to inebriety without endangering the safety of the locals.

The Tornado was the first among the five to respond. It was true that the massive influx of migrant workers over the last few years had led to the destabilising of society. The Tornado could understand the general frustration of the locals. But it was wrong to pin the blame on the migrant workers. They were fathers and sons who had left their families behind in search of a better paying job in our country. Some of them were ripped off by unscrupulous agents. Some of them had their pay withheld by dishonest employers. The migrant workers were the vulnerable. The Little India riot was their scream of desperation. And now the politicians who had mismanaged immigration policies wanted everyone to believe that the migrant worker community was ungrateful for their generosity and disrespectful of the law. If Teen RV and her followers chose to believe the politicians’ rhetoric, they would be as guilty as the protectionists who had turned away boatfuls of refugees and sent them back to sea to an almost certain death.

“But I kind of agree with The Tornado.” Hashwini had protested when Euu Ki instructed her to draft a rebuttal. “I don’t think it is right to blame the riot entirely on the migrant workers.”

“Look at it this way, darling.” Euu Ki snapped his fingers and swirled his head diva style. “What is online is drama and you are playing the bitch. You want to play your role in such a way that the readers root for you because you make things interesting. Most people go online with their minds already made up. They just want to read what reinforces what they already believe. Many of them are embittered losers looking for someone who can bitch about life in style. That is what Teen RV aspires to become. The Royal Bitch.”